Greg Bedard of Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that tight end Jermichael Finley is now expected to miss 8-10 weeks following knee surgery on Tuesday. Originally expected to miss three weeks, doctors decided during surgery to repair Finley’s meniscus rather than simply removing it.

That leads to a better long-term outlook for Finley, but a longer recovery this season.

Bedard reports the Packers are currently deciding whether they will wait for Finley during that time. With plenty of other injuries, including a long-term one for linebacker Nick Barnett, Green Bay has very difficult roster choices to make.

22 responses to “Jermichael Finley could miss the rest of the season”

They might as well keep him on the roster and see if he can help them in December. If your choice for the roster spot is 2-3 regular season games with Finley or 11 games with a practice squad guy who won’t contribute, I’d take Finley. When he’s healthy, he’s something special, but injuries are becoming a pattern with this guy.

And the hits keep coming…
I guess we could hope for him being ok and help make a run when he comes back. 4 weeks til our bye and then with best case scenario he would miss 3 more games.
Or shelf him, play Lee and see if Quarrels comes on strong.
Hmmm… tough choices.

That’s fine. I’ll just enjoy watching Favre and the Vikings implode instead. Anyone have a Cowboys hat they want to loan me this week? I don’t need the Jets hat anymore.
Oh yeah – I’ll make sure to get two foam middle fingers to wave at Favre. One for me and one for Ted Thompson.
Thanks, Ted.

Stick a fork in the Pack, we’re toast. No Running back, best TE goes down, 9 to 11 guys likely out for the Miami game; not our year. The Super Bowl hype looks to be off by a year, let’s see what happen next season when a healthy pissed off team gets unleashed.